Swithin! And the fellow had gone and died, last November…

“She stood and tried hard not to believe in God. It seemed mean and petty to have more belief in God when things were…

— John Galsworthy

“Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,…

— John Galsworthy

“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II”

— John Galsworthy

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

— John Galsworthy

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy

“That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.”

— John Galsworthy

“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile everything is,…

— John Galsworthy

“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England,…

— John Galsworthy

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

— John Galsworthy

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

— John Galsworthy

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

— John Galsworthy

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

— John Galsworthy

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it…

— John Galsworthy

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

— John Galsworthy

“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he…

— John Galsworthy